Re: More ARM binutils fuckage

[Nicolas Pitre <nico at cam dot org>]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Khem Raj wrote:

> Lennert Buytenhek said the following on 12/5/2006 7:10 PM:
> > The kernel itself needs to be EABI to be able to run EABI userland
> > binaries.
> >   
> I dont think so. You can have kernel compiled with Old ABI compiler and it
> still will run EABI binaries with right config options.

No.

> it might needs some wrappers in glibc though.

This is (was) a hack.  And with those glibc wrappers an EABI binary just 
pretended to be old ABI and was seen as old ABI by the kernel.

> How would you generate a EABI binary with a non EABI toolchain then. (after
> all kernel is also a binary)

There is the "toolchain", ant there is the "compiler".  The kernel only 
needs a "compiler" (well and a linker of course).  You don't need glibc 
to compile a kernel. The compiler can select between both ABIs at 
runtime.  At least enough of the ABI differences the kernel cares about 
can be selected at runtime.  So any gcc with EABI support can do 
regardless of how it was configured.


Nicolas

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